EPW040940 ENGLAND (1933). Maidstone Airport and surrounding countryside, Kings Hill, from the north-west, 1933

Pennawd	[EPW040940] Maidstone Airport and surrounding countryside, Kings Hill, from the north-west, 1933
Cyfeirnod	EPW040940
Dyddiad	April-1933
Dolen
Enw lle	KINGS HILL
Plwyf	KINGS HILL
Ardal
Gwlad	ENGLAND
Dwyreiniad / Gogleddiad	567626, 155878
Hydred / Lledred	0.40358214594151, 51.276843710396
Cyfeirnod Grid Cenedlaethol	TQ676559

Abbey Wood Cottages Adrodd fel Amhriodol	gareth19822002	Tuesday 25th of October 2022 03:33:27 PM
Abbey Wood Cottages Adrodd fel Amhriodol	gareth19822002	Tuesday 25th of October 2022 03:33:18 PM
Abbey Wood Farm Adrodd fel Amhriodol	gareth19822002	Tuesday 25th of October 2022 03:32:49 PM
Sportsman Inn Adrodd fel Amhriodol	gareth19822002	Tuesday 25th of October 2022 02:50:35 PM
This looks remarkably like Sir Alan Cobham's National Air Displays - http://www.afleetingpeace.org/index.php/14-business-and-pleasure/169-alan-cobham-s-national-air-day-displays - which took place on 17 April 1933 at Maidstone. If you view EPW040990 you will see the aircraft in formation flying over Cranford - just to the east of Heathrow; the autogyro is line astern of the lead aircraft - G-ABYX. Same aircraft on the deck at Maidstone. For the auto gyro see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fh34jPyDDc Adrodd fel Amhriodol	Mike Holder	Monday 15th of June 2020 03:17:06 PM
Cierva Autogyro with a DH Moth behind? Adrodd fel Amhriodol	Kentishman	Friday 5th of September 2014 09:28:27 PM

I may well be wrong, but the nearest aircraft looks rather unusual and makes me think it might be a Cierva Autogyro as it appears to have fore to aft rotors rather than wings. The aircraft immediately behind looks like a DH Moth, given the slightly swept back wings. I would be very interested to know what the other aircraft are, especially the two twin engined, fully enclosed, biplanes?	Kentishman	Sunday 21st of June 2015 07:17:00 PM
Sir Alan Cobham's Flying Circus	clippedwings	Friday 27th of February 2015 10:26:59 PM